The pit in front of the poker room is in various stages of disarray – roped off to protect the public from themselves – slot machines on carts and a zillion other things going on out there as preparations begin to set up the temporary tables and room. Lots of rumors flying in the room – one of them is that the pit area will only have 15 tables in it on Tuesday night and 25 on Wednesday night. I asked Kamell and he said he had no news as to what would be set up in the pit yet. Guess when I hit the area tonight, it’ll be pretty easy to figure then. 🙂

I started on 28 and by the time I reached Table 1, a three hand games was in progress. $1,500-3,000 Mixed – Lee S. – 1s, Johnny C. – 3s, Phil I – 7s, Eli E. – 8s. Johnny won a pot and announced that he was leaving and would be back later. The boys were gabby and relaxed. I busted out laughing several times during their conversation. It rambled from playing with Andy Beal, to Gabe Kaplan playing Andy Beal, to Lee playing against a guy in L.A. that had his number, to running a poker site on the internet could get someone arrested.

Phil said he’d just do his 60 days if he got arrested. It was funny. It got even funnier when he said he’d have to kill himself if he ended up in a cell with Mike M.

I couldn’t help but laugh. I really like Mike M. but he can do the nonstop talk thing forever – with no hope of volume control and yes, he’s in jail. It’s a drug thing – no opinion or judgement on my part – just the facts.

Table 2 was eight handed – mixed $200-400. On a funny note, about the fourth hand I dealt, Jim G. – 1s, ended up heads up in Omaha 8 or Better with David L. – 8s. David fidgets his chips and thinks (sometimes too long before he acts) and that’s what happened here. After David bet, Jim did a thing where he kept placing one small stack of chips over the last stack he released, repeat, repeat, mocking David’s move.

Jim made a comment like, “I suppose I should call you now,” and with that he speed fired a $400 call. David showed his hand, Jim power folded his four cards – down the middle – and pitched them in with the statement, “There’s a bad card, Linda.”

No shit! How about four cards killed in action? I called for a new set-up. Tim acknowledged me but failed to show. He came by about five minutes later and I told him again. Again the acknowledgment but he disappeared. Finally ten minutes after the card killing event, Tim appeared with a set-up. When I handed him the decks with four bent cards, I expected him to ask how the cards got destroyed (the norm would have been for the floor person to do that) but not to worry, he never said a word about them and acted like that’s the way they came out of the box.

I talked to Kamell about the card killing when I got pushed. I’ve never seen Jim behave in this manner and really have no opinion on what that was all about but shit happens in poker. People just lose it when they’re running bad or when someone gets under their skin, either could have been the case.

$10-20 NLH on Table 3 was pretty darn frisky – Three locals and the rest were new faces. $30-60 on Table 4, $15-30 on Table 5 with major ram and jam going on, $20-40 Omaha 8 or Better with a Half kill on Table 6 – decent action – about half and half, locals vs. tourists, Table 7 and 8 were both $80-160 Holdem, one was a Must Move.

Time? 1:30 a.m. and I got an E/O. See ya kids! G’nite poker room and sleep well during your face lift.